Teaching sustainable design
- California Polytechnic State Univ., San Luis Obispo, CA (United States)
Sustainable design is inclusive, holistic and integrative. It require humility and guts, caring and a certain degree of stubbornness. It helps to do it cooperatively in a group. Human interest in sustainability has gained a great deal of impetus over the last several years as the problems of the late 20th and the early 21st century have become clearer. Design for sustainability broadens and integrates many previously separate design concerns to create a unified approach that is both compelling and ripe with new possibilities. Ecosystem regeneration, ecological land use planning, biometric design, regional environmental and economic viability, natural landscape maintenance, resource optimization, integrated infrastructure system, neotraditional and pedestrian oriented urban design, passive solar architecture, appropriate technology, renewable building materials, healthy buildings, and the aesthetics of place; are a few of these design concerns that, when welded together, can create sustainability.
- OSTI ID:
- 116213
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950725-; ISBN 0-89553-210-7; TRN: IM9545%%180
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: SOLAR `95: national solar energy conference: 10,000 solutions - paths to a renewable future, Minneapolis, MN (United States), 15-20 Jul 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Solar `95: Proceedings of the 20. national passive solar conference. Volume 20; Campbell-Howe, R.; Wilkins-Crowder, B. [eds.]; PB: 361 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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